Are you joyful, apprehensive or just plain confused about the Synodal process that you have been hearing about? The Eastern Churches can be of great help and clarity to you on this subject.

LIGHTEAST 985 Confused About the Synodal Process

Devotional practices between the Eastern and Western lungs of the Church are often different from each other, yet they arrive at the same point. These differences are not deficits but rather, complements.

LIGHTEAST 984R Eastern and Western Churches

The raging of the sea, the raging of nations, fire in the sky, just some of the warnings of the end times. Are the end times really near? The answer is both yes and we don't know.

LIGHTEAST 983R Are the End Times Near?

There is saint spelled with a small 's' and Saint spelled with a capital 'S' The life of a baptized Christian is a journey toward turning a small 's' into a capital 'S'

LIGHTEAST 982R Saint Spelled with a Small s

We revisit a fundamental question that is often asked and often not well understood. What exactly is meant by the different Rites of the Catholic Church? How and why are they different?

LIGHTEAST 981R  The Difference Between the Rites of the Church

'God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.' Learn how you can help the author of these words to be declared a saint.

LIGHTEAST 980 How You Can Help Someone Become a Saint

So ancient yet so new. How late have I found Thee." The words of St. Augustine to Our Lord might also be the words of those who have found a place within the Eastern Catholic Churches.

LIGHTEAST 979R2 So Ancient Yet So New

Every Eastern Christian church has its own ancient and indigenous chant which is sung by the faithful during liturgical services. This gives cantors a special place in Eastern Christian Liturgy.

LIGHTEAST 978R Cantors in Eastern Christian Liturgy

AH Yes those hazy lazy days of summer. But not so fast with the ribs, burgers and brats. We have some preparing to do that will be good for our soul and our body.

LIGHTEAST 977 Hazy Lazy Days of Summer

An invocation to the Holy Spirit, the Heavenly King and Comforter, begins all prayer all prayer services in the naturally charismatic Byzantine Catholic Church.

LIGHTEAST 976 An Invocation to the Holy Spirit

This unique program reveals how the riches of the Eastern Catholic Churches - their liturgies, spirituality and relevancy - are a gift to the whole Church and to today's world.

Truly enjoy Father’s Homily Meditation and Teachings. The Chant that accompanies his teachings definitely needs to be heard by both Lungs of the Catholic Church. Thank you Father Loya for allowing the Holy Ghost to speak so powerfully through you. Your teachings Father Loya have enriched my life as a Roman Catholic. Both lungs share so many Saints whose lives are our Stepping Stones to Heaven our common Destination. Jesus Mary and Joseph save our Souls.

Lenten Messages

I love this podcast. I have recently developed an interest in Eastern Catholicism, however there are no Eastern churches near me. This podcast allows me to learn more about my Eastern brothers and sisters. I do wish they were a bit longer at times.

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Light of the East

Fasting and Penance is the way to prepare for any great Feast day. This includes Confession which is similar yet different to the form practiced in the Latin Rite.

LIGHTEAST 746R Confession in the Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Churches and the Roman Catholic Church may differ in emphasis, style and expression, but they all ultimately converge at the same point. We will look at how this happens and some of the issues that divide.

474 - The Eastern Churches and the Roman Catholic Church

Let's face it. We all need to read the Bible more and to actually become the Bible. The Liturgy, art and architecture of the Eastern Churches can actually immerse us into the Bible.

LIGHTEAST 766R We Need to Live and Become the Scriptures

The journey through the Great Fast has begun. And, the liturgical life of the Church will fill our nap sacks with everything we need including a recipe from Theodore the Recruit.

541 Tridentine Mass-Eastern Liturgies

Pope Francis has called for a heightened emphasis and availability to the sacrament of confession and for us to have a deeper understanding of sin and to understand the relevancy of confession which can help us to confess the best and far surpass the rest

547 Confession

In the Eastern Churches, Epiphany is the observance of the baptism of Christ; it is called Theophany. And water is blessed on these days and is used to sanctify many things.

536 Epiphany-Theophany

A study finds that Ecumenism is not a pressing topic for many Catholic and Orthodox Christian faithful. Could this be because perpetuating the division between them is not important to them either?

LIGHTEAST 667 EWTN - Why Are We Not in Communion

Living in the "real world" is not about living in pain and hardship. The Feast of Our Lord's Transfiguration is our immersion into the "real world" and it is a glorious one indeed.

LIGHTEAST 775R The Feast of Our Lord's Transfiguration

While the Eastern and Western expressions of the Church have their own respective identities, there are point of convergence between them. One such place is the event and icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

LIGHTEAST689 - The Icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The art of the Church breathes with both lungs, East and West. There is iconology in the West and iconography in the East, but they both arrive at the same point.

474 - The Art of the Church

The Nicene Creed, as proclaimed at every Byzantine Divine Liturgy, has a significance and relevancy today as it did during its beginnings when the Church Fathers gathered at Nicea in 325 AD.

LIGHTEAST711 The Nicene Creed

Are you having anger issues? The wisdom of the Eastern Christian spiritual masters and the best of modern psychology can help with this and other fallen passions.

LIGHTEAST646 - Are You Having Anger Issues

While the Eastern Christian Churches have a long and intricate history, their legacy and spirituality remain vital and relevant in confronting today's modern world.

LIGHTEAST682 The Eastern Churches - Relevant Then and Now

Don't just "go to Church." Don't just "satisfy an obligation." Rather, LIVE the Liturgy, which is an immersion into the truth of life, particularly when it comes to marriage.

LIGHTEAST 725R Don't Just Go to Church

Three great ascetics are put before our eyes as our guides at this point of Lent. As Pope Saint John Paul II said, "Monasticism is the reference point for all of the baptized."

LIGHTEAST 757 Monasticism

Story telling is the essential way that Our Lord and the Liturgy of the Church immerse us into the drama and message of the scriptures. Our special guest, Eric Groth tells stories through the medium of film.

LIGHTEAST 708R Essential Story Telling

It's not enough to say that we attended Mass or celebrated the Divine Liturgy. The vision that litrugy gives ws must move beyond the walls of the church and affect all of life.

LIGHTEAST642 - It's Not Enough to Say That We Attend Mass or Divine Liturgy 

Pope St. John Paul II said that the church breathes with both lungs, East and West. But, why did this come to be? Are the tiny eastern churches still relevant in a modern world?

522 East and West

Of all of the virtues that belonged to the desert spiritual masters of the Christian East, one virtue in particular is the most characteristic and far too scarce in our modern age - humility."

LIGHTEAST 777R - The Virtue of Humility

The differences between the the theologies of east and west are more a matter of emphasis, perspective and expression than fundamental belief. In the end, east and west arrive at the same place but from different directions

LIGHTEAST 779 The Theologies of the Eastern and Western Lungs

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